Famous Charles Baudelaire Quotes
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
Charles Baudelaire
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
Charles Baudelaire
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
Charles Baudelaire
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Charles Baudelaire
Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Charles Baudelaire
There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Charles Baudelaire
But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
Charles Baudelaire
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire
Music fathoms the sky.
Charles Baudelaire
